| I Become Small and Go | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Alternative pop | |||
| Label | NickelBag | |||
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I Become Small and Go is the debut album by the American band Creeper Lagoon, released in 1998. [1] [2] The band promoted it by touring with Versus and Rocket from the Crypt. [3] [4] The first single was "Wonderful Love". [5] "Empty Ships" appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dead Man on Campus . [6]
Founding members Sharky Laguana and Ian Sefchick, who had played in a high school band in Ohio, recruited a drummer and bass player through a want ad prior to the recording sessions. [7] John King, of the Dust Brothers and Creeper Lagoon's label, NickelBag, remixed "Empty Ships", "Dear Deadly", and "Wonderful Love". [8] In addition to employing sampling, the band used a long list of toy and found instruments. [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Albuquerque Journal |   [10] |
| AllMusic | [11] |
| Robert Christgau |  [12] |
| The Independent | [13] |
| Spin | 8/10 [14] |
Trouser Press dismissed the album as "by-the-numbers contemporary alterna-pop for listeners who’ve never heard any." [15] The Washington Post wrote that "singer-guitarist Ian Sefchick and guitarist-keyboardist Sharky Laguana compose melancholy ballads that suggest such elegantly downbeat rock composers as Mark Eitzel ('Wonderful Love') and John Cale ('Second Chance')." [16] Spin determined that, "aesthetically, they're between indie-jangle and art-pop, floating in space between the Matadorian arch-intelligentsia and the miniaturists of the Elephant 6 collective." [14] The New York Times stated that the band "turns the kind of noise that sounds like it came from inside someone's brain into achingly pretty, unraveling ballads." [17]
Music Week said that "Creeper Lagoon track a thoughtful, textured path through My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3 territory." [18] The Boston Globe labeled the album "a pleasant blur of folk-pop melody, noisy guitar workouts, sampled strings, and Bulgarian chants." [19] The Oakland Tribune concluded that, "live, this band motors along nicely on charisma and an edgy attitude, but this record tries too hard to finesse weak material." [20] The Rocket deemed it "basic, ready-for-airplay smooth pop-rock." [9]
AllMusic opined that, "without King's distinctive touch, tracks like 'Tracy' and 'Second Chance' seem stunted and colorless." [11]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Wonderful Love" | |
| 2. | "Tracy" | |
| 3. | "Empty Ships" | |
| 4. | "Dreaming Again" | |
| 5. | "Prison Mix" | |
| 6. | "Sylvia" | |
| 7. | "Dear Deadly" | |
| 8. | "Black Hole" | |
| 9. | "Drink and Drive" | |
| 10. | "Second Chance" | |
| 11. | "He Made Us All Blind" |
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